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christ we need to write about our convictions about creative freedom and digital autonomy
there's bits and pieces here and there but we've never written out the whole picture and how things fit together
a basic tenet is that piracy and samizdat are an essential thing and an attempt to create a world where they can't exist is an attempt to kill art; more provocatively, samizdat is the true and final form of all works of art. final in the sense it's all that's left in the end
@hikari
meanwhile, in my own skull palace:
- Cybersecurity people could've killed Google Chrome before it rose to prominence, using the same arguments they used against the Ask/Babylon search toolbars that may have plagued your (grand)parents' computers
- anime cop Noa Izumi is, in some key ways, a better FOSS mascot than the Linux penguin*
[see https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B3kS7d2BeERz3WC5Wi for more details]
- the Nexus 7 tablet (paired with a keyboard) was two ports and a socketed SSD away from becoming a compelling alternative to small laptops (i.e 11 inch Macbook Air)
* OpenBSD pufferfish is alright
meanwhile, in my own skull palace:
- Cybersecurity people could've killed Google Chrome before it rose to prominence, using the same arguments they used against the Ask/Babylon search toolbars that may have plagued your (grand)parents' computers
- anime cop Noa Izumi is, in some key ways, a better FOSS mascot than the Linux penguin*
[see https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B3kS7d2BeERz3WC5Wi for more details]
- the Nexus 7 tablet (paired with a keyboard) was two ports and a socketed SSD away from becoming a compelling alternative to small laptops (i.e 11 inch Macbook Air)
* OpenBSD pufferfish is alright